Birth Date:
1787-09-22
Death Date:
1826-06-30
Litchfield Ledger:
Original Repository:
Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School
Lecture Date | Lecturer | Opening Line | All terms |
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not applicable | Evidence 1; Private wrongs 44; Sheriffs and Jailors 115; Powers of Chancery 209; Contracts 240; Execution 476. | Title Page, Volume 2 Table of contents | |
not applicable | Master and servant Law Merchant Insurance Bills of exchange and Prmy notes Criminal Law Pleas & pleading | Title Page, Volume 4 Table of contents | |
The rights of executors and administrators being thus established, we will next consider their duties. Their first duty is to inventory all the personal property. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Duties of executor & administrator | ||
This writ is issued to some executive officer, court of justice | Prerogative writs, Volume 2 Writ of mandamus | ||
Twofold, when one complains of illegal constraint of liberty; that one is holden after bail is offered. | Habeas corpus, Volume 2 Writ of habeas corpus | ||
Tis never granted unless one gets full indemnification that his story is true and he must make affidavit. | Audita querula, Volume 2 Audita querula | ||
First as to the nature of the Sheriff's office and second as to the manner of appointing him. | Sheriff & Gaoler, Volume 2 Sheriffs & jailors | ||
Persons who want discretion can't make a will from whatever cause it may arise, as from insanity, drunkeness &c. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Who can make wills | ||
Legacies are either pecuniary, as money or [word] in goods and on the death of the testator both vest in the executor till he assents to the payment of them. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Legacies | ||
This also depends on the intention of the testator. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Ademption of a legacy | ||
In the ascending line there is no difficulty in computing the degrees of kin. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Who is next of kin | ||
The body of an executor or administrator is not liable to arrest for the debts of the testator, because the suit is against the property of the deceased in their hands | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Mode of proceeding against executors | ||
This is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the powers in a state commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. | Municipal law, Volume 1 Municipal law | ||
This is a singular institution to be found in no other country but England or those who have derived their laws from her. | Chancery, Volume 2 Powers of chancery | ||
The first thing I shall notice is the right which the husband acquires to the wife's personal property. | Baron & feme, Volume 1 Baron and feme | ||
To every contract there must be two or more parties, they are of two kinds, executed and executory. | Contracts, Volume 2 Contracts | ||
Executors and administrators are the representatives of deceased persons for certain purposes, i.e., as to their personal estate and as to their duties which affect their personal estate. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Executors & administrators | ||
All persons who can make wills and some who cannot. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Who may be an executor | ||
Debt is a sum of money due by contract. Blackstone is incorrect when he says by express contract, for it may be implied. | Action for debt, Volume 2 Actions on contracts: debt | ||
This action is for the recovery of specific chattels and is in effect a bill in Chancery. | Action of detinue, Volume 2 Action of detinue | ||
There are four actions sounding in contract: debt, detinue, account & assumpsit. | Action of account, Volume 2 Action of account | ||
All persons may be administrators who are not disqualified by law. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Who may be administrators | ||
This action is founded on contract of late date, the action of debt was used universally before assumpsit. | Assumpsit, Volume 2 Action of assumpsit | ||
This consists of maliciously defaming a person by words either written or spoken. | Private wrongs, Volume 2 Slander | ||
An executed agreement presupposes an executory agreement, but finished, but there are executed contracts which do not presuppose any executory agreement. An executed contract requires no consideration. | Contracts, Volume 2 Appendix to contracts | ||
By our statute, execution has become a common mode of requiring title to estates. | Contracts, Volume 2 Title of execution | ||
The ordinary may ex officio or at the instance of some person interested, cite the executor to prove the will. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Manner of proving wills | ||
Libel is the ground of public and civil actions; this is not the case with slander. | Private wrongs, Volume 2 Libel | ||
A vexatious law suit differs from a malicious suit. | Malicious prosecution, Volume 2 Malicious law suit | ||
Assault is an attempt with force to injure one's person, such as if executed would be battery and such as is at the issue practicable | Private wrongs, Volume 2 Assault | ||
Battery is any injury done to one's person, whether in anger by carelessness, negligence. | Private wrongs, Volume 2 Battery | ||
Every imprisonment | Private wrongs, Volume 2 False imprisonment | ||
This is only an aggravated species of battery. | Private wrongs, Volume 2 Mayhem | ||
"This is retaking one's property by giving security to answer the action or pay the debt." | Injuries to real property, Volume 2 Replevin | ||
The property of the testator vests in his executor immediately on his death. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 What act an executor may do before probate | ||
Trover goes on the ground that some man has another's property, no matter how he came by it. | Trover, Volume 2 Trover & trespass | ||
In law there is but one executor, tho' in fact there are even so many persons named as such in the will. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Of co-executors | ||
This is a person who without any authority intermeddles with the goods of the deceased in a manner calculated to induce a belief that he is Executor de jure. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Executors de son tort | ||
When an administrator is appointed, the appointment relates back to the decease of the intestate and he may sue for all injuries done between the deceased & the appointment. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Duties of executors & administrators | ||
The general rule is they are entitled to all chattels in possession and to all the evidences of debt as notes, bonds, covenants &c. | Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Right of executor & administrator to chattels | ||
Under this title many disputes will always arise. | Evidence, Volume 2 Evidence | ||
not applicable | Real property Sorts of estates Estates in expectancy Deeds Devises Estates of several owners Fraudulent convey Trespass Ejectment and dispersion Waste | Title Page, Volume 3 Table of contents | |
An infant or minor is any one under 21 years by Common Law, the term being technical. | Parent & child, Volume 1 Parent & child | ||
not applicable | Executors and Administrators 1 Municipal Law 172 Baron and Feme 240 Parent and Child Guardian and Ward Bailment | Title Page, Volume 1 Table of contents | |
The duty to protect children is also founded in natural law, but it is rather permitted rather than ordained by municipal law. | Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Guardian & ward | ||
Bailment is the delivery of goods on a contract express or implied that they shall be restored to the bailor when the purpose for which they were bailed is accomplished or answered. | Bailments, Volume 1 Bailment |